Week 98 - Cat Print Tote Bag

Dear Santa,
Thanks for a wonderful gift.  If you do it again next Christmas, I will scratch and punch you...

This is not what I expect.

Oh, hi everybody.  How was your Christmas?  Did you have a nice gift?  Don't ask me.  Mine was terrible.

Guess what?   That old SantaClaws guy gave me a few fleas in spite of my request.  Therefore, M, my human friend gave me a flea treatment drop this year.  Life is cruel, isn't it?

I am disappointed in this year's Christmas but the life still goes on.  Let's start to check this week's project.


This week, M made a tote bag with cat print canvas which she bought a couple weeks ago.

Cat Print Tote Bag

The handles are nylon webbing belt.  The bag size is about 33 x 31 x 5 cm.

M attached tricolour ribbon as a tag.  It becomes an accent on this monotone bag.

There is a small pocket on the other side.

The liner is polka dot cotton fabric and a magnet fastener on it.
There is an inner pocket as well.

I am checking the shape.

Week 97 - Cat Macaroon Bracelet

Dear Santa,
I have been a wonderful cat and worked hard.  Please give me a piece of fresh tuna, Fancy feast for one year, boneless chicken roast, salmon fillets, Temptations chicken flavour...etc.

Oh, hi.  I was writing to Santa.  I don't know his address but I hope he reads this blog and brings some of my requests.  Okay, I will start to work for this week's project.

This week, M made miniature fake sweets using polymer clay.  This polymer clay is harden by air-dry, not by usual oven-baked.  It is much easier to shape and smooth texture is excellent to miniature details.  M made colourful macaroons.

Cat Macaroon Bracelet

Each macaroon is about 2 cm diameter, sandwiched clay cream as real macaroon.




M also made a Pavlova and a gingerbread cat for charms.  Pavlova is approximately 2.5 cm (1 inch).


Pavlova is a Kiwi icon and Kiwi people eat it in any special occasions - of course, in Christmas as well.

I checked Macaroons.

Merry Meowy Christmas !

Week 96 - Puss in Xmas stocking

Hello humans and kitties.  It is about ten days to Christmas and people seems to be very busy to prepare the festive season.  We, cats are amazed to watch humans in such a hustle.  My human friend M is not preparing for Christmas, but she seems busy to prepare the project for this blog.

This week's project is also for the Christmas.  M made Christmas decorations with needle felting.

Puss in Xmas stocking

M made a kitten with needle felting and sewed tiny Christmas sock for it.







She also made a ball decoration with needle felting.

The ball is about 4 cm diameter.  

I'm checking the kitten.

Week 95 - Puss Pomander

Hello humans and cats.  How's your first weekend in December?  It is very warm in Christchurch.  People in Northern Hemisphere hardly understand summer in December.  So as M.  She doesn't seem to get used to Christmas in summer forever.  I don't mind summer or winter as long as I can have a good meal.  I enjoy munching salads this morning, although I am not a vegetarian.



Previously, M started Christmas project and made a cat shape wreath.  This week, she tried to make a traditional Christmas project - pomander ball.
This is a cat craft blog.  How does she arrange the pomander ball to a cat craft.  Let's have a look.

Puss Pomander

Orange and Cloves

All you need for this project is :
Orange, cloves, wire, ribbon, beads and tools ( skewer, scissors and wire cutter)

Started with the face, "M" pattern on the forehead, then tabby stripe on back and finished with the whiskers.  






Personally, I don't like citrus smell but as a professional quality controller, I checked it anyway.

Week 94 - Meowy Christmas Wreath

Hi.  How are you everybody?  It's Saturday and the last day of November.  Good bye November, hello December.  Personally, I don't care November or December.  But people seem to be busy in December for preparing to a festive season.

This week, M made a Christmas item for me.

Meowy Christmas Wreath

It is a cat shape wreath.  M used a cardboard and foam polystyrene as a base.

 

 The base is wound with florist tape and tinsel.

 Then decorated with a charm, jingle bells, ribbon and cat biscuits-like ornaments.

I am disappointed that the biscuits are not real.  It's made with clay.  Cannot eat.

Anyway, I checked.

Week 93 - Cozy Cat Coffee Cover

Hello cat and craft lovers.  Are you having a lazy weekend?  I got up early this morning as I have a work.  Normally, I get up around midday.  You must think 'what work?'  Of course, I have a work to check this week's cat craft for this blog.  I am a hard worker.

This week, M made a coffee plunger cover.  Let's have a look.

Cozy Cat Coffee Cover

 M used felt fabric and made each cat part first, then sewed on the black felt.

Decorated with daisy shaped shell buttons.

I am checking the details.

Now, the work is done.  I can take a nap.

Week 92 - Royal Kitty Ballet Card Holder

Hello everybody.  How are you relaxing this weekend?  I got up around midday and sunbathed on the windowsill this afternoon.  Christchurch is sunny and warm today.  M was doing a clay work for this week's project.

She tried to make a Royal Kitty Ballet team again with polymer clay.  Remember, once she made a snow globe, then a pop up card.  This time she created a first kitty male dancer.  Let's have a look.

Royal Kitty Ballet Card Holder

Oh, he is a long-hair cat wearing white tights!  The partner in pink tutu is me?

Is this me?

It is difficult to see in the photo, but the tutu is decorated by glitter.

Back angle.

I am short sighted.

Week 91 - Elegant Leopard Cat Nacklace

Hello humans and cats.  How was your week?  I was annoyed by fireworks this week.  I hate fireworks.  Even the Guy Fawkes day finished, but still stupid humans are doing fireworks to annoy all the animals around.  Incidentally, I hate Halloween as well.  Meaningless festival.  Black cats only enjoy it.

Well, I am not a grumpy cat.  I'd better to check M's work now.

Elegant Leopard Cat Necklace

She made an elegant necklace this week.   Materials she used are 6 x leopard print shell beads (25 mm diameter), 72 x round beads (6 mm), 1 set of cat and fish toggles, tigertail wire 65 cm, a few of jump rings and crimp beads and a heart cat pendant head (38 x 36 mm).  Finished size is about 56 cm long excluding the extension.

No special techniques required for this project.  Just thread the beads onto the wire.  Only a basic technique - attaching a clasp.






M made an another necklace on Wednesday.  It has nothing to do with Cat Project, but here is for your reference.

She used double wires and threaded all beads and crimp beads onto each wire at once, then started to crimp beads from the centre to each sides.  It is the easiest way to make these type necklace when you are not sure how far to set a bead away from the next bead.

I am checking the quality.

.

Week 90 - Antique style Cat Jars

New Brighton beach

Hello everyone.  How do you enjoy napping?  No nap?  How about nip - catnip?  No nip?  Ahhh, humaaaan!  Life is short.  Don't be so serious.  Take a nap and nip.  Learn from your cat to relax.

My human friend M went to New Brighton beach this week and took a few pictures.  The photo right is one of them.  The beach is about 10 min by car from our place.  She told me that the pink and yellow flowers are bloomed at the beach.  It is spectacularly beautiful contrast to the sea and sky of blue.

This week, M tried to her glass project again.  She couldn't have a satisfied result last week and changed the project.  How about this week?  Let's have a look.

Antique style Cat Jars

Both glass jars are recycled.

 M used polymer clay and glass cabochons.  After baking to be harden, she applied Brush'n Leaf to make it to be an antique style.  The cat has Rhine stone eyes and holds a ball of yarn.

The other glass jar is simply painted cats and catnip pattern.

I am checking the quality.

Week 89 - Gorgeous Small Clutch Bag

Hello people and kitties.  How is your weekend going?  A long weekend has just started in New Zealand.  Monday is a labour day.  Although M and I don't have any plan, it is still good to have a relax time.  Humans need to be more relax.  Sleep tight and stretch well.

Today M was struggling with her idea in front of the fabric and laces.  This week's project was supposed to be a glass paint, but it didn't work well as she expected.  Regardless she changed the project and decided to use scraps of fabric instead of glass paint.  Here is the work of this week.

Gorgeous Small Clutch Bag

As she used the black dot ribbon as an accent, she arranged spot fabric as a liner.  Interfacing is attached to the fabric.  And she sewed on a kitty charm to finish.

A cute gold kitty charm

I am checking the stitches.

Week 88 - Soft Touch Cat Silhouette Cushion

Hello!  It's Saturday, time for cat crafts.  This week, M was using fake fur which scattered the fluff everywhere.  The synthetic fur is not so good quality as my beautiful real fur.  Don't say the real fur also scatter the hair.  It's better than scattering hairballs, anyway.

Here is this week's project.

Soft Touch Cat Silhouette Cushion

First, M cut out the cat shape from the cotton / linen fabric.  Then she attached to the fake fur.

Cut out the cat chape

Attached the fur

The detail

Textural contrasts create interesting effect.  M made it with natural colours, but it is a good idea to use printed fabric instead of cotton / linen, or leopard fake fur instead of white fur.

The back of the cushion

 

Cat buttons are made with polymer clay.  Attached by black round beads through the each holes.

I am checking the smell.